[IPk] Re: ip-uk-digest V2 #484

Dear All
Fiona you do seem to be well controlled. After a year on the pump I'm still
erratic. My trouble is eating carbohydrates, can't seem to get it right!
Well I suppose I shouldn't.
Oh yes it is DIY. My next appointment at the hospital is in a year and I
won't have a HbAic test until then. I did query this but was told an
earlier one was not neccessary as my control was good (7.4) - you put me to
shame.
Thank goodness for this list.
Heather (3 auto immune disorders, DM 13 years)
>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:43:19 +0100
>From: "fiona.stoate" <email @ redacted>
>Subject: [IPk] Re:follow up pump therapy and sites
>
>Hi after succeeding in persuading local health care providers that pump
>therapy would be a better option for me after 36 years on injections and
>various MDI regimes, I have had my first HBA1c result since starting on the
>pump. I was pleasantly surprised to find my HBA1c was now 5.5%. I juggled
>life and shift work, bringing up children etc etc and although I managed
>HBA1c levels of 6 - 7.5% before, I was often eating to counteract hypos and
>woke in the mornings frequently feeling tired and struggled to wake up.
>For
>years I thought was just me and because I was busy. Anyway since being on
>the pump I wake up lively and wide awake, I adjust my basal rate to vary
>quite a lot from low overnight to higher in the mornings and after some
>meals and low for exercise. The amazing thing is that with that low HBA1c
>I
>am not having anything like the hypo episodes I was having before. As
>discussed with others before on this site my only problem seems to be
>related to sites and types of cannula used. If site not quite right it
>very
>quickly results in high blood sugars and sluggish response to insulin
>boluses. Even with some such problems HBA1c doesn't show it. Continuous
>blood glucose monitoring has to be incorporated soon I think to make it
>even
>better.
>
>Education - I find it frustrating that there seems to be so little. I
>would
>like to get involved but nothing is forthcoming in this area so I shall
>carry on working shifts in intensive and special care. I saw my GP
>recently
>as had a terrible bout of D&V presumably due to a bug. No problems as was
>able to manipulate pump and frequent blood sugars. GP was interested in
>pump, showed it to him and the site etc. He asked if it really was better
>than bd injections!!! I had to tell him that I have been on MDI for over
>20
>years!! How on earth else could I have managed shifts, erratic meal times,
>pregnancies etc and kept 'good' control?
>
>I was due to see consultant in July for annual review so phoned to find out
>about appointment. Apparently they are at least six months behind
>schedule!!! It doesn't worry me but there must be loads of people who
>really can't afford such a long wait. Having started a new type of insulin
>therapy, it really is DIY and without the info from this site I would have
>found it very hard to do on my own.
>Thanks folks
>
>Fiona
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